Lively plays for live people

by Thomas S. Denison

A FARCE-COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS

By T. S. DENISON

Author of
Odds with the Enemy, Initiating a Granger, Wanted, a Correspondent, A Family Strike, Seth Greenback, Louva, the Pauper, Hans Von Smash, Borrowing Trouble, Two Ghosts in White, The Pull-Back, Country Justice, The Assessor, The Sparkling Cup, Our Country, Irish Linen Peddler, The School Ma’am, Kansas Immigrants, An Only Daughter, Too Much of a Good Thing, Under the Laurels, Hard Cider, The Danger Signal, Wide Enough for Two, Pets of Society, Is the Editor In? The New Woman, Patsy O’Wang, Rejected, Only Cold Tea, Madam P’s Beauty Parlors, Topp’s Twins, A First-Class Hotel, It’s all in the Pay-Streak, The Cobbler, A Dude in a Cyclone, Friday Dialogues.

Also the Novels,
The Man Behind, An Iron Crown, etc.

CHICAGO:
T. S. DENISON, Publisher,
163 Randolph Street.

TOPP’S TWINS.

COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY T. S. DENISON.

CHARACTERS.

• Cadwalader Topp, of Topp & Topp, twin brothers, oyster dealers; old bachelor, irascible, vain, great stickler for “honah;” wants to adopt twins; family tradition; stout man.
• Tick. (Alias Jim Baggs.) Traveling man of Topp & Topp; typical drummer, rather cheeky, quick, appears braver than he is; ready for any adventure or practical joke.
• Josiah Twiggs, old friend of Tick’s father; parent of Angie and Mrs. Twiggs-Knott, who calls herself “Twiggs hyphen Knott.”
• Mrs. Twiggs, a mother and grandmother of “Twiggsie and Dixie,” the twins.
• Mrs. Twiggs-Knott, mother of the twins, and a widow who knows how to get what she wants.
• Angie Twiggs, a bright young lady.
• Bob Spratt, seedy adventurer; he tries to work off his twins on Topp; in revenge precipitates the duel; villain of the play.
• Mrs. Dubbledam, housekeeper from Holland; good-natured, slow, loquacious.
• Ginger Potts, an African; body servant of Mr. Topp; a good deal of the monkey; comic by nature and good in theory, which theory is sometimes not fully supported by facts.
• Dr. Short, the surgeon, an animated wooden man.
• Personages not appearing on the stage, the real twins, “Twiggsie and Dixie;” also Bob Spratt’s twins, the victims of circumstances, and called for the occasion, Benjamin Harrison Spratt and Grover Cleveland Spratt.